Analog specialist Apex targets printing market

Now that is has split with of Cirrus Logic, Apex is focused on
integration, pulling in more of the control features currently designed
in as discrete parts to drive the power stages within its analog chips,
such as protection functions.

The company’s design engineering
and manufacturing operations, which reside at its headquarters in
Tucson, Ariz., includes a 50,000 square-foot facility with a 20,000
square-foot Class 5 clean room. Apex will retain more than 80 of its
employees. But it is looking to boost its analog engineering workforce, a
task that Brennan conceded will be a challenge. “It’s very hard to find
good, solid analog folks and bring them here to Tucson.”

A
larger challenge, he continued, is finding applications within the
industrial sector that can benefit from its high-precision, high-voltage
analog products and align its portfolio within those areas. “There are
opportunities in the industrial space that folks don’t know they need,
and we think we can define those places for our customers.”

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